Bronson Battaglia

Warsaw Diary

11/10/2014

1. The author of this work is Stanislaw Sznapman.

2. The title of this work was Warsaw Diary, the significance of the title is that Warsaw
Poland is where the author was trapped when he was in the Ghetto.
3. This work was written in 1940. The important background is that the Germans invaded
and gained control, they separated the Jews and they were confined behind walls. Many
wrote journals while they were there and this is one account.
4. The intended audience may have been the authors loved ones or just to inform people
in general about the horrors of this event.
5. It talks about the wall that they built around them and the torture of being able to see
hints of the beauty of the outside world and have to live inside this dusty cluttered
world. The work describes all the awful ways that people were killed. There was no
mercy with the Germans; they shot kids, women, and even pregnant women and
babies. Those who tried to help them were killed as well. Near the end of it all the
Germans got a taste of their own medicine when the US bombed German cities. (95)
6. The work makes the point of the extreme cruelty of the German troops against the Jews
and many others. The torture that they all went through was more than most can even
imagine. There is no explanation for the gruesomeness of the Germans. It is supposed to
grab your attention and shake you so that people remember that time in history. (62)
7. This work really made me think about how a group of people could ever get to that
point of being ok with treating other human beings like that. It is unfathomable to me, I
dont understand. It makes me sick.